05/01/2026
When businesses collaborate, learners thrive 🤝✨
This piece of work was created through a business-to-business collaboration between North Star Learning Hub and Pets4People as part of the Animals at War unit through the AQA Unit Award Scheme.
For this young person, this achievement is huge.
With Pets for People bringing expert, therapeutic animal-assisted learning…
Sami gently guiding and scaffolding the learning…
And North Star acting as an AQA accreditation centre…
👉 learning became accessible, meaningful, and achievable:
• rebuilding confidence
• creating emotional safety
• connecting learning to lived experience
• and recognising progress in a way that counts
The result?
✅ A finished project
✅ Evidence submitted
✅ Accreditation awarded
✅ A learner who now knows: “I can do this.”
This is the power of cross-sector collaboration.
This is what alternative provision done properly looks like.
If you’re a business, organisation, school or service working with children who don’t fit neatly into mainstream systems - let’s talk. Because when we work together, outcomes change.
